When I was pregnant with my second child, I remember sitting in my ob-gyn's office awaiting an ultrasound and peeping at my medical chart on the table next to me. Among the scribbles were the words ...

Dictionary.com recently unveiled its Summer Word Drop of new words that have been added to the online dictionary. And the new entries included three medical terms, five climate change and warm weather ...

Confabulation: A memory disorder where the patient fabricates unusual thoughts about oneself or the society without any intention to cheat. Delirium: Confused thought process and loss of awareness ...

When a person first signs up for Medicare, they may come across many terms and abbreviations. Learning the definitions of these terms can help make it easier to understand and navigate Medicare.

As you learn more about the health care options available to you at Brandeis, you may come across some unfamiliar terms. Refer to the glossary below to help you make sense of these terms. You can also ...

A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. Madeline Benuen says a language glossary for Innu-to-English, and vice ...

Prenatal test: A test done before the birth of the baby. Trimester of pregnancy: Pregnancy is divided into 3 trimesters each of around 3 months. The first trimester is for 12 weeks, the second is from ...

The World Health Organization has a department of pandemic and epidemic diseases. The list of such diseases include viral haemorrhagic fevers, like the current Ebola outbeak in West Africa, as well as ...

Med-tech firms have gnashed their teeth for decades over the use of the term “recall,” given that some recalls are mere corrections to product labels while others entail a full product withdrawal. The ...